sent to some Mechanick Way of Life, without respect to his Birth, if Nature designed him for nothing higher: let him go before he has innocently suffered, and is debased into a Dereliction of Mind for being what it is no Guilt to be, a plain Man. I would not here be supposed to have said, that our learned Men of either Robe who have been whipped at School, are not still Men of noble and liberal Minds; but I am sure they had been much more so than they are, had they never suffered that Infamy.
But tho' there is so little Care, as I have observed, taken, or Observation made of the natural Strain of Men, it is no small Comfort to me, as a
Spectator
, that there is any right Value set upon the
bona Indoles
of other Animals; as appears by the following Advertisement handed about the County of
Lincoln
, and subscribed by
Enos Thomas
, a Person whom I have not the Honour to know, but suppose to be profoundly learned in Horse-flesh.